From: John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: First baby steps with MKIV
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 11:21:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201107021121.19192.john@wexfordpress.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201107021103.37007.john@wexfordpress.com>
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On Saturday, July 02, 2011 11:03:36 am John Culleton wrote:
> On Saturday, July 02, 2011 10:45:24 am John Culleton
wrote:
> > Followed this wiki,
> > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals
> >
> > installed in my personal directory.
> >
> > Now for the most elementary quetsion: Given the file
> > foo.tex how do I actually run mkiv context on it?
> > I tried
> > mtxrun template.tex
> > and I get the error:
> > ./template.tex:1: unexpected symbol near '\'
> >
> > template.tex is an outline of a Context file:
> > ---------------------------
>
> And here is template.tex:
> \starttext
> \startfrontmatter
> \startstandardmakeup
> %\input title.tex
> \stopstandardmakeup
> \completecontent
> %\input preface.tex
> \stopfrontmatter
> \startbodymatter
> Hello world.
> %\input body.tex
> \stopbodymatter
> \startbackmatter
> \completeindex
> \stopbackmatter
> \stoptext
>
> Tried running it as a plain texexec (MKII) file and got
> this message:
>
> bash-4.1$ texexec template.tex
> MTXrun | kpse fallback with progname 'context'
initialized
> in 0.09 seconds
> /usr/local/texlive/2010/../texmf-
> local/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb:8:in `require': no
> such file to load -- ftools (LoadError)
> from /usr/local/texlive/2010/../texmf-
> local/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb:8:in `<main>'
>
> I have a standard texlive 2010 installation. I have been
> able to run ordinary tex, pdftex etc. files before today.
> I also was able to run Context files without a problem.
>
> I will switch to an old partition that has no minimals
> installation and see if that will fly on the same file.
OK instead I ran
/home/safe/context/tex/setuptex
again, then
context template.tex
and it worked as a user. The setuptex must be run in each
console I use. I'll create a script to simplify things in
case I forget again.
--
John Culleton
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-02 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-02 14:45 John Culleton
2011-07-02 14:47 ` yoraxe
2011-07-12 16:00 ` John Culleton
2011-07-12 16:03 ` luigi scarso
2011-07-12 17:08 ` John Haltiwanger
2011-07-02 15:03 ` John Culleton
2011-07-02 15:21 ` John Culleton [this message]
2011-07-02 16:26 ` Khaled Hosny
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